Ghost floppy drive

[Malc]

Meanwhile on a serious note for a mo. I have a new PC without a floppy drive, but "A" drive comes up in explorer, if I accidently click on it, it keeps complaining the drive is open until I restart, can I delete it from explorer or do I go into device manager and do something.

[Rik]

Check what is showing in Device Manager. Windows enumerates the drives on startup, so it must be seeing something, possibly a ghost from the BIOS.

[Malc]

Under floppy disk controllers I have std floopy disk controller, I can update driver, disable or uninstall.
scan for hardware changes then properties.

[Malc]

In properties under device usage I can change to "do not use this devise" will that work?
I'm not the most PC tech head and I dont want to mess things up.

Thanks Rik

[Rik]

I'm wondering if your BIOS is giving Windows a ghost drive. Rather than try and talk your through that, though, I'd suggest using device manager to disable the floppy controller, and see if that cures the problem. Once you've disabled it, when you open DM, it should have the floppy controller entry expanded, with a red cross against the device.

If that stops the problem, fine, otherwise I suspect a trip into the BIOS is called for, to disable the controller there.

[Malc]

Thats worked, I wondered if it would, but not being a PC expert (and self taught) I don't want to mess up and end up re-installing.
That has happened before, but, not for a long time now.

Thanks Rik

[Rik]

Glad to help.